Superfood stylish dialogue. Life style youre a. Song. Pad sales a soaring as people stay home during the coronavirus pandemic. And turning to mans best friend is one way of coping with chronic loneliness. As good good i think i made a good choice the dog kept me busy i walked him a lot i think he also loved the attention when i was at home so much of why thank you so much if thats halls of. Studies. Physical contact is helping people cope with a crisis. But just how effective is it when your liaison cant talk back. Well its the same case with a 6 stall business is booming as the technology has advanced you still cant have a conversation with these next robotic sex aides but people do take them on road trips as youll see in a moment a little warning some of the sounds in this report may get your pulse racing. Now that shes got a head say hello to lucy for 5 years shes been learning to speak but his circuits still require a bit of tinkering. And. Because it can connect to the net well if you. Lucy will one day be able to hold simple conversations because these dolls are meant to offer more than just sex re sing about is. We dont want. Something you. Make human up says so title make him part of something posted i love you all the best or Something Like this. For now leonard lous dolls are limited to little more than a moan making them good enough for their primary purpose. And the microchips in their heads mean they can groan in english japanese and chinese apparently. A good market for the dolls is germany but leonard says the lack of german hasnt proven a problem so far. When i see. Reviews former customers when they get their dogs are very happy thats why to say with was a france oh i got nice stuff from iran. Oh i feel so happy oh my life change is with. Come come into my life. So well when i see it is it bad emails all of it bad reviews on the internet i fear on the and i am. More prepared for the further movements in this business you for those this is a client many sex doll factories demand for the products here has doubled during the coronavirus pandemic learned lou has received countless photos from happy customers after all dolls are exempt from rules around face coverings and you can take them anywhere with you regardless of physical distancing rules. During lockdowns they help their owners forget how alone they actually are leonard lou thinks hes doing a service to humanity. As a mom and create in dollars for man. And they do have request they have needs and the it have it has big market. And my mother said ok when you have others who can do that since it is not illegal you can do that if you can help others. And with his vast array of fabricated friends he could help just about anyone. Else bringing in psychiatry as their own john biology of Indias National institute of Mental Health and your sinuses 1st of all is a sex stolen effective treatment for chronic loneliness. You know. Its very individual late so it might be because some it might not be person rather it depends on the need for social dutch as you were mentioning the need for physical proximity which has degrees to doing to knock down times so its one to resolve looking at it but then again. It depends it depends in societies cultures about its accept a pretty and whether it can be a replacement for the human touch our human proximity what about. Pets have actually been studied or or the last 6 months theres been a lot of studies especially with cats and dogs. And they have classically been seen to improve the Human Connection its seen to really of depression anxiety loneliness and specially when youre not able to meet others to help you to stick connected the feeling of human the feeling of being a human is retained so the pretty useful measures and have been studied quite much indeed so how else would you advise someone whos feeling lonely and forced into isolation. I think good she will be im have really taken up. The a speaking virtually here and staying connected to at least 4 or 5 keepers and its a major key one thing that we keep telling people who are isolated arent quarantined that that makes sure that at least you talk to one person beat a stranger and one person clytie and whatever hobbies you have i think the lock down and all that situation have given us plenty of opportunities to notice that and thats a real relief to stay positive so it takes being given a very special British Survey Shows one in 10 people experienced loneliness before the great low down 2 weeks in that rose to one and for young people was 3 times more likely to feel those feelings why is that i mean i thought young people spend most of their time in for their mobile phones. I think as you rightly said corbett has brought to us the real difference between a digital interface connectivity and human connectivity we have been doing some work on the concept of touch hunger like we feel hungry for food to people what are we also have thats hunger that can become chronic and especially in this unprecedented situation when we are not able to physically need people no matter how much virtually does and that affects specially people who are in you know that a dollar since we were young because human touch social touch affectionate touch are very important in stages of Human Development and mostly there will be affecting the young and also the older people specially those who are of a pretty tight. I like to call in the League Season strong i just want to point out a point you used in one of your papers you you said all of humanitys problems stem from our inability to sit in a room alone whats wrong with us. Yeah i think thats something which really made me reflect when i wrote the quote that youre mentioning from my paper on social that lesion and the internet. I also mentioned that we need to confront the loneliness into sundays shoot basis you know the green ones are quite subtle so i believe that just break some part of this break was needed and its a critical balance between knowing how to see a spend time with one sense versus socializing and if either of it is not enough then thats the problem so one thing that the lockdown at the coffee prices has also helped us and is trying and understanding how can we spend time to ourselves you know having a saudi chuka having enjoying our hobby reflecting on us and thats one big which really we can use to deal with this chronic loneliness not only in the pandemic but even after that really briefly after the pandemic what happens then when people ditched their dog all that sexto wilmas Mental Health speech such an issue. Of course i think this is just the tip of the iceberg and the beginning were looking at next 6 months to one year Mental Health issues are going to race. I as a Mental Health professional my person take will be that people will try to at least you know they will learn to spend more time with themselves virtual medium can be a medium of communication and of course things like bath you know as youre mentioning sex dolls or even robotics theyre even butchers robotic Artificial Intelligence these will come up gradually in mitigating that military will have to leave it real things. Thank you very much for being on the show. Thank you. Now if youve got any questions on the coronavirus write to us or now you should channel is al science correspondent were. There any countries that seem to have achieved had immunity. The answer to this is a resoundingly no but its still worth talking about herd immunity again at at this point in the pandemic just a reminder herd immunity is what we all want its the Tipping Point when enough of the population is immune to the virus that an infected person on average in facts less than one other person so the number of new infections falls and immunity can come either from having had the disease or receiving a vaccine it doesnt matter which most estimates say herd immunity will only be reached with cope at 19 when between 60 and 70 percent of the population acquires immune status and that could prove hard to reach especially if the munity to source code to proves to not be a very long term and those whove had it or in those whove been vaccinated which brings me to the country that i want to talk about im suite which last spring swam against the lock down tide by largely leaving society open there and it was hit pretty hard by the virus and return although reaching herd immunity was never explicitly part of its governments coronavirus strategy its logical to expect that we would possibly see an effect in a place that had such high infection rates for early on so are we seeing one well interestingly maybe despite its looser restrictions the average daily number of new cases in sweden remained quite low throughout the summer even when they began rising again and many other European Countries were. With tighter restrictions thats not direct evidence that the beginnings of herd immunity could be playing a role there but its a tantalizing hint that it might be. Africa. Theres some sense of luck. Or a crown cranes bring good fortune to the environment to. Get in kenya their numbers are sinking dramatically. Now volunteers are getting locals interested in protecting these majestic good luck charms. For. Latitudes. Theres a lot of energy. Theres enough of it available and theres a way for. One function after its not sealed is released. But the green energy is the future and its already here. Made in germany. 60 minutes on d w. This is some dope story a stubborn rice farmer from thailand and. His problem pests. His credo no chemicals. And hes trying. To step. Out. Senators. The students are caught up in the pests dont stand a chance. Training. Successful. Judge. Starts october 15th w. Hello and welcome to another edition of eco africa im now a time where i have the Conservation Foundation in Lagos Nigeria this week we have some really interesting reports on farming conservation and art lets welcome my cohost sandra hi there sandra hi india to hello everybody from me to here in the capital of uganda i am so excited for this weeks episode of africa well fos report comes from western africa to be more precise from ghana but fost. Other stories coming up over the next. We look on to help conservationists. Brainstorm plan your. People. Lives devastated. And how some african artist. Weve. Inoculating see sounds weird doesnt it but with this method farmers can minimize the use of even organic fertilizer it is one of the several new eco friendly techniques that film was in northern uganda and learning from sochi and hes the train as its claimed the complex science in simple terms small for the farmers who called taken up the courses say they will have improved significantly. Given the northwestern part of ghana farmers maybe cultivate soybeans. Out in the fields to care for full hectares of land. 4 years ago for diluted part in a Training Session for Sustainable Agriculture since then have crop hilton a profit having creech. On them. Innit. Into farming she has recently established a 2nd business she sells traditional textiles in the communities around her village to linger. I used to having 2 or 3 backspace will seize a set or using the know its 7 to 8 bags. An awful lot she learned how to inoculate seeds during a Training Session conducted by the local Company Green e. T. F. Today the farmers engine jody cool also taking part. In the method is simple the seeds are stirred together with water and sugar before dried weasel bianchi had bacteria added but terri keypads the way each cow pct must be more just. Once dried the inoculated seeds must be sown at precise distances to one another thanks to this method the farmers no longer have to use chemical pesticides. More than 500 farmers have been trained by the company so far more harm is the cheap who came up with the idea for the Training Sessions he actually studied business but soon switched to agricultural philosophy. His team instructs the farmers of how to run their farms in more sustainable ways such as by using the plant cremains for compost or bio coal. The families of kidnapped plants for example i especially well suited to enriching depleted soils. This track or briquettes and then a war so how produced by which is very good soil. Properties like what i heard in capacity and they sold me different also pollution so i was at a point i mean it had would have been a pass like. For you that were going to do it. Most farmers in ghana used chemical fertilizers and pesticides which has worsened the quality of the soil this gave eco predinner such a reason to search full turn it serves the farmers can even test the make up of the soil if needed the samples that been sent to the companys own lab. Although the Training Sessions for the small scale farmers are free the sole analysis const between one and 30 euros depending on what exactly is being tested for farmers its worth it because they learn exactly what the soil needs and prevent the use of sex if you know anything mazes preventing that leeching off some of these excesses and i doubt what our bodies run off into the surface whatever these core simple lucene says at a social fire what our form i mean mass and i dont even know any sense since having his soul tested but pharma just shut conlan really uses fertilizers anymore before the analysis he found exclusively soybeans but now that changed. The 3 years ago when i started self testing with. I produced me as their commander to me and then my results doubled i got 70 bucks more. From there i always got to fold and this has helped me to viewable to our. Farm tractor which is health and my production. Just should conlin expanded from small to medium scale like the culture for the isnt quite there yet but shes well on her way. From gunnoe we crossed the continent to kenya to check out a project that is full of bugs well some blogs anyway a Conservation Organization has made it eats mission to find for the survival of one species in particular. Thats right sandra like so many of our feathered friends crowned cranes i would risk due to habitat loss and poaching now a Community Based ngo is informing the farmers children and others about the importance of protecting these majestic creatures. Wherever the cranes go ga is not far behind he leaves nearly called bull site in Central Kenya the local consumption hist is passionate about birds and founded the cranes Conservation Volunteers organization he regularly visits their habitats to monitor their activities. Need to build their way plants if we see this crazy allow it i mean think it that will help hell be with you know and also that calls for protection that we have something here that these groups and not just cranes can attest to that the area is home to the largest population of gray crowned cranes in the whole country over the years grain populations have suffered a major decline as a result of human related activity like trampling of chicks by dr stalk pushing for mid both local and commercial level and collection of eggs but the cranes also disturb the farmers living around the lake. Were told me how we. Get to when we can i guess you know how did we can exist with the corn cranes on our farm the very destructive when replant crops they take the seeds to get 200 board you know media and with some mature like the pieces they peel and do not have to do they eat from the hoof. Only door what you have you are reducing conflicts between humans and wildlife is the main work of georgia dome. And his team mates regularly with farmers the conservationists explains that cranes also have a positive impact on the crops because they eat worms which normally destroy the young plants when have its time approaches then carried them to get their funds to protect their crops even convinced porches to become volunteers when his team. You know when i fish at the lake i take care of the crowd cranes in accordance with the government regulations. What are you the birds attract tourists and when they come here they have to develop the area and create masteries for schoolchildren. I thought or could be. So much. Why not do it there. The volunteer conservationist also visit schools in the region twice a month this time hes at the market rec a Primary School where 3 children received this masteries all together 32. 00 best stories have been provided by the Development Fund the lake also became a protected area last year the cranes breed that its show from july to february just before the breeding period starts the quince Conservation Volunteers try to coordinate with farmers to democrats important breeding areas by the lake sometimes community to cooperate and other times the tent because when. We tell them to exclude the livestock during the great season and during their dry season their past i would say the lake it is minimal so thats a lead them to bring their cattle despite this how those judge doom works tirelessly to mediate with locals and keep the area protected for the benefit of the great plains and the local population who will benefit from the growing eco tourism. Mazing its terrible the risk of dying out because of the loss of their habitat we say its important to preserve natural habitat a logical balance in tanzania a Nongovernmental Organisation is trying to do just that lets meet the people on the archipelago. The scenery is in high demand its used in Food Pharmaceuticals and Industrial Products and its one of sams of ours biggest exports but its under threat it employs over 25000 people 80 percent of those are women. Rising Ocean Temperatures brought on by Climate Change are making it harder for farmers to maintain their sea repeals thats driving them to use unSustainable Practices damaging the fragile marine habitats on which their livelihoods depend. Have been behaving the wheat from a has been getting me down recently. Very little see wheat growers and were making less money than before. But when farmed well seaweed can goose the ocean health by improving Water Quality and providing a habitat for fish. The Nature Conservancy is an ngo that provides training for farmers on Sustainable Practices be aim is to increase seaweed healed while helping the marine ecosystem and the women who depend on it. It includes planting seaweed on ropes so it grows at the best depth to maximize nutrient intake. The project will select some of the farmers to become mentors to others unable in coastal communities to help themselves become more resilient to Climate Change. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit. We share your story. Now thats a very poor. Project to encourage people to adopt best practices. Takes a different approach to getting his message across a South African port an artist wants his extraordinary sculptures to help protect the environment his works made from bones and history trophy a loss of a. Society to do all the cat to prevent harm to nature. This is unusual and it also has a message. 78 year old South African sculptor professor and poet pretty can truly has created 45. 00 bones sculptures called the exhibition. To sway me in the local zulu language translated into english this means return to the source for the artist things have never seemed more urgent. We have to prepare ourselves for more. Simply because we have disrespected me. We have rounded nature with plastic always sleeps. We have introduced the issues of. Where people live to hunt in their own countries they just kill them for them to get their heads to help them in their own. Houses so the whole issues of crete the issues of corruption the other ones that have really led us to where we are now and yet is that other people pull the upset everything has tells us about how we must be. Critical and truly has been working for more than 40 years with material he scavengers from scrap yards. With bones that he collects from nature reserves. Coronavirus Restrictions Mean the public has not yet been able to visit his artworks but every sculpture can be viewed online together with supplementary audiotape than tooley recorded especially for each piece. What curating is because for a long time with crating has been traditional as being going to space. And particular. Has challenged and the Auto Industry even how we speak of art. And how art speaks to worst. Critic and truly is also a traditional healer. Before working on the bones he speaks to the dead animals to appease their spirits. Im throwing down the bow. In order to divine